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From Collegiate Presswire's RadioWire (https://www.cpwire.com/radio): Radio What good is a hearing test if the person being tested is too young to let you know what they heard or is in a coma or severely disabled? New research being discussed at the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation shows that brain activity indicating whether a sound has been heard can be monitored even if the person can�t communicate. Doctor Douglas Chang of the Stanford University Medical Center says this is important because putting a hearing aid on a person who can�t hear instructions may make for a faster rehabilitation:
�We have patients who are a little bit restless, a little bit agitated and part of the problem is that they�re not really hearing what we�re asking them � they don�t understand or comprehend what we�re asking them to do. With the hearing aid, all of sudden it becomes clear and we definitely have concrete examples where that�s happened.�
The meeting drew some three thousand physiatrists, physicians who specialize in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
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